On October 2015, the 15th, it has been inaugurated the extension of the LNCMI-T, having six wells for experiments, completely secures, in the presence of the authorities (CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, INSA) and the representatives...
NEXT has been assessed by an international jury for its mid-term review by the Commissioner General for Investment and ANR (oral presentation on June 2, 2015 in Paris). The jury recognizes the very great qualities of NEXT: dynamism, attractiveness...
10 July 2015, 17h14
17 juin 2015, 16h38 Using high-throughput tethered particle motion single-molecule experiments, the double-stranded DNA persistence length is measured in solutions with Na+ and Mg2+ ions of various ionic strengths....
11 mai 2015, 09h50 Numerous perturbation theory schemes are based on linked-cluster expansion. They all suffer from the fact that finite graphs have less symmetries than the infinite cluster : for instance, they lack...
11 mai 2015, 09h36 Les techniques de perturbations basées sur un développement en graphes sont très communes en physique. Elles se heurtent à un problème générique du fait des symétries réduites des graphes : par...
17 April 2015, 17h35
Pr. Matthieu Gounelle Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) & équipe de Cosmochimie de l'IMPMC (Jussieu)« Solar system genealogy revealed by extinct short-lived radionuclides in meteorites » Short-lived radionuclides are radioactive...
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2015,30, 658-665DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00367E Synchrotron investigation on...
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Dr. Larysa KhomenkovaV. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National academy of sciences of Ukraine« Semiconductor nanoclusters/nanocrystals embedded in oxide films grown by magnetron sputtering »Semiconductor...
The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the 4th time on February 25, 2015 to select scientific projects in response to the 4th call for proposal.
11 février 2015, 08h31 We present a large-scale exact diagonalization study of the spin?1/2 Heisenberg chain in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire...
11 février 2015, 08h19 We present a large-scale exact diagonalization study of the spin?1/2 Heisenberg chain in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire...
6 février 2015, 13h46 Impurities and defects in strongly correlated quantum systems often produce significant effects over an extended spatial region, which can be studied by local probes such as nuclear or electron...
6 février 2015, 13h46 Impurities and defects in strongly correlated quantum systems often produce significant effects over an extended spatial region, which can be studied by local probes such as nuclear or electron...
Participants of the session "Network analysis and applications" of the School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon (June 2014) The School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon has just been created and aims to promote the development of...
On behalf of the freedom of expression, CNRS invites researchers, engineers, technicians and...
CNRS and the japanese university « Nara Institute of Science and Technology » (NAIST) have...
Dr. Walter KOBLaboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier « The glass transition: New insights...
PhD thesis (Université de Toulouse, spécialité Nanophysique) entitled:"Compréhension de la...
29 September 2014, 10h55
The partnership agreement between the Japanese company HHT and CNRS, the representative of the...
22 August 2014, 10h43
26 juin 2014 26 juin 2014, 12h45 Multifractality corresponds to scale-invariant fluctuations which cannot be described by a single fractal dimension.This property can be found in many problems of classical...
26 juin 2014 26 juin 2014, 12h44 Multifractality corresponds to scale-invariant fluctuations which cannot be described by a single fractal dimension.This property can be found in many problems of classical...
PhD thesis (University Toulouse 3 - Pole SDM, Cifre funding Soitec) entitled:Influence of...
Functional Molecular Architectures Based on Multi-Anthracene AssembliesDr. Michito Yoshizawa...
Design, synthesis and study of molecules for graphene functionalization The thesis will be...
13 June 2014, 09h27
12 juin 2014, 13h57 Wikipédia regroupe un pan extraordinaire de la connaissance humaine, qui peut être exploité afin d'étudier les relations entre cultures. Dans cette optique, deux scientifiques du LPT, et leurs...
12 juin 2014, 13h49 Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate intertwinements between cultures. With this aim in mind, two scientists at the LPT and their collaborators...
23 May 2014, 15h47
Dr. Philippe LAUDET - Project Leader at CNES of the SEIS instrument InSight Mission "A French...
14 mai 2014, 13h20 We determine the basic phase diagram of the fish school model derived from data by Gautrais et al (2012 PLoS Comput. Biol. 8 e1002678), exploring its parameter space beyond the parameter values...
14 mai 2014, 13h14 We determine the basic phase diagram of the fish school model derived from data by Gautrais et al (2012 PLoS Comput. Biol. 8 e1002678), exploring its parameter space beyond the parameter values...
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By controling the 2D growth of Au colloids and by studying teir non-linear optical properties,...
Scientists of the CEMES, in collaboration with scientists of the LSI Ecole Polytechnique, have...
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Antonio CheccoCondensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department Brookhaven National...
The School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon has just been created and aims to promote the development of sciences and technologies as well as interdisciplinary exchanges between students from various scientific domains. It is also a perfect venue to...
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29 septembre 2013, 19h27 We construct a class of projected entangled pair states (PEPS) which is exactly the resonating valence bond (RVB) wavefunctions endowed with both short range and long range valence bonds, and with...
29 septembre 2013, 19h23 We construct a class of projected entangled pair states (PEPS) which is exactly the resonating valence bond (RVB) wavefunctions endowed with both short range and long range valence bonds, and with...
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4 septembre 2013, 15h25 The experimental progress (e.g. on strongly spin-orbit coupled nano-wires deposited on a superconductor) in establishing the existence of non-abelian particles is very exciting and is the first...
4 septembre 2013, 15h17 The experimental progress (e.g. on strongly spin-orbit coupled nano-wires deposited on a superconductor) in establishing the existence of non-abelian particles is very exciting and is the first...
CEMES inaugurates new facilities unique in the world: the electron microscope I2TEM and the picoLab building financed amounting to € 18M (CPER 2007-2013). Atoms have been "seen" in the CEMES and molecules and functional nanomaterials have been...
21 mai 2013, 15h45 Recent experiments with alkaline-earth-like cold atoms, such as strontium or ytterbium, have reached the quantum regime. In these systems, the interactions are almost independent of the nuclear spin...
21 mai 2013, 13h59 Recent experiments with alkaline-earth-like cold atoms, such as strontium or ytterbium, have reached the quantum regime. In these systems, the interactions are almost independent of the nuclear spin...
Published on: Scientists of the CEMES, in collaboration with scientists of the LSI Ecole Polytechnique, have succeeded in studying the variation of the 3D structure of a magnetic domain wall in nickel nano-cylinders of diameter between 50 and 90 nm.
Published on: By controling the 2D growth of Au colloids and by studying teir non-linear optical properties, E. Dujardin, A. Arbouet, C. Girard et al. Demonstrate that plasmonic modes can be directly probed by optical microscopy. These results,...
Published on: 2013-02-26In recognition of the research he has conducted for the last 18 years, mainly at CEMES in Toulouse, Dr. Marc Legros has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research prize from Germany’s Humboldt Foundation....
30 January 2013, 12h41
Researchers from CEMES/CNRS, Leti/CEA and STMicroelectronics have written and edited a book presenting in a simple and practical way the new quantitative techniques based on TEM which have recently been invented or developed to address most of the...
Researchers from Toulouse (CEMES) and Ohio University have developed a molecular motor 2 nm in diameter. This motor can be made to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction by selec tive inelastic electron tunnelling.A rotative motor is...
Materials scientists at Toulouse (CEMES) collaborating with ESWCT Airbus (Toulouse) have discovered when studying the nanotube wetting on polymers, that nanotubes placed on a thermoplastic polymer (PEEK) surface diffuse homogeneously in the...
Magnetization and magnetoresistivity measurements have been performed on the isostructural ferromagnetic superconductors UCoGe and URhGe in magnetic fields up to 60 T and temperatures from 1.5 to 80 K. At low temperature, a moment polarization in...
Graphene nanoribbons could potentially be used to create molecular wires with tailored conductance properties. However, understanding charge transport through a single molecule requires length-dependent conductance measurements and a systematic...
Most physical systems tend to order at a low enough temperature, and there are very few exceptions to this rule. For magnetic compounds, such exceptions are called "spin liquids" and over the last two decades, much effort has been made to...
A team of physicists of the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux - (CNRS/ESPCI-ParisTech/UPMC), the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (CNRS/INSA Toulouse/Univ. Toulouse 3/Univ. Grenoble 1) and the Department of...
The new Dual Beam microscope – Focused Ion Beam (FIB) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)–, bought in the frame of the MIMETIS project (EQUIPEX funding) is now fully operational at CEMES. This ensemble, equipped with numerous tools (gas...
In a recent letter published in Europhys. Lett. 99, 66001 (2012), Nicolas Laflorencie from LPT showed using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a lattice bosonic model of stacked superfluid/superconducting layers that a unconventional...
The newest double coil system recently put into operation in Toulouse ’only’ generates magnetic fields up to 81.3 T, i.e., smaller than the american world record (100.75 T generated at the NHMFL Los Alamos), but it offers a record field...
Researchers of the IBM-Zurich Research laboratory, of the CIQUS-Santiago de Compostela and of the NanoSciences Group –CEMES-CNRS Toulouse, have shown it is possible to map the carbon-carbon bond orders within a single molecule of polyaromatic...
Researchers of Toulouse (CEMES), Grenoble (LTM) and Sfax have studied the scattering of light by isolated silicon-germanium nanowires. They showed that the nanowire color can be modified as function of the nanowire diameter, composition and...
An experiment was carried out using the ELFIE laser facility of LULI at Ecole Polytechnique (France) in order to test collimation of high-power produced plasma jets by strong magnetic fields, a topic of interest for so-called laboratory...
Beam splitters exist for matter waves just as for light waves. However, physicists cannot yet manipulate beams of matter as well as beams of light. A novel matter-beam splitter based on crossed lasers provides new control knobs over the matter...
At LNCMI efforts have been performed in order to introduce Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in pulsed high-field magnets. Since pulsed fields of up to 100 T have been reported while the highest continuous fields don’t exceed 45 T, the...
The new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) I2TEM financed by the CPER «MET ultime» and the EQUIPEX project «MIMETIS», is now working in CEMES. I2TEM is the result of cooperation between CEMES-CNRS and Hitachi High technology to design and...
Virginie Serin, Vice Director of the CEMES is Professor at the University Paul Sabatier in physics. She exerted a certain number of responsibilities, at the local, national and international level. Her scientific career, thanks to the...
Researchers from CEMES-Toulouse, IJL-Nancy and synchrotron SOLEIL have identified the most important electron states contributing to the tunnel current in Fe1-xCox/MgO/Fe1-xCox magnetic tunnel junctions. They explained the decrease of the...
The preparation by Spark Plasma Sintering of “all-solid-state” monolithic lithium-ion batteries in few minutes allows to obtain cells with good electrochemical performances, especially at high temperature (› 80°C). The “all-solid-state”...
Carbon nanotubes are the most studied nano-objects worldwide. This book is however stating that carbon nanotubes are barely useful to any application when they are pristine, pure, and perfect, instead of doped, filled, coated, or functionalized....
The LPT is pleased to announce that Mai Dinh is among the Junior laureates for 2012 of the Institut Universitaire de France. Congratulations to her !After Éric Suraud (Junior in 1994 ; Senior in 2010), Jean Bellissard (Senior in 1995),...
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse and Fraunhofer IISB in Erlangen initiated the foundation of the Wide Bandgap Semi-conductor Alliance WISEA, including the Chair of Electron Devices of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse. The alliance...
CEMES researchers in collaboration with physicists in Spain and The Netherlands are able to use the flexoelectricity of thin films to reach a much higher piezoelectricity than in bulk materials. This research work is carried on in the European...
In a recent letter published in Europhysics Letters, Bertrand Georgeot from LPT and Olivier Giraud from LPTMS in Orsay have studied the complex network describing the sequences of moves in the old Asian game of go.
We have implemented a novel approach for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of magneto-optic phenomena in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern [1]. Our set up is displayed in fig. 1. It is based on a portable periodic...
The objectives of the “Groupement de Recherches” (GDR) NACRE (Nanocristaux dans des diélectriques pour l’électronique et pour l’optique) is to promote exchanges between researchers studying these nanomaterials, which applications belongs...
This book published by Editions Hermann demonstrates the close collaboration between materials science and social sciences conducted in three laboratories CEMES, LISST-CERS and LPCNO. What does mean "see" the invisible? Artists and researchers...
Develop electronic and photonic components based on Gallium Nitride is the purpose of GANEX, project selected by the ministry of research, for Investment with prospects plan (Labex round 2). CEMES is a partner of GANEX which brings together about...
The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the first time January 24, 2012 to select scientific projects in response to the first call for proposal.
In 2011 we have seen considerable progress in the strength of pulsed magnetic fields.
A new cathode for cold-field emission gun using a pyrolytic carbon-cone supported onto a carbon nanotube as the electron emitting tip has been developed in CEMES. The measured brightness of the carbon nanotube-based tip is 5 times better than...
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This book, including several contributions from CEMES scientists, provides an updated view of the rapidly growing field of mechanical properties of nano-objects like micropillars, nanowires, nanoparticles, nano-precipitates, nano-twins, MEMS, NEMS...
Researchers of CEMES and IMRE (Singapore) set a Guinness World Record with a 1.2nm controllable, molecule-sized gear, which is officially the world’s smallest. The gears are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a single strand of hair.
Gold nanoparticles are patterned into various cholesteric textures, onto a huge variety of substrates (glass, soft plastic, water), by controlling the film thickness and the interfaces. This demonstration offers a simple bottom-up technique for...
The ultrafast dynamics of individual gold nanorings has been studied by femtosecond spectroscopy. The influence of the nanoparticle/substrate interface on the vibration modes is discussed. For the first time, the impact of the surrounding medium...
With the tip of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope we are able to reversibly switch between two stable states a metal organic complex as shown in the scheme. The switch is due to the capture (or loss) of one electron and accompanied by a...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
IRT AESE
The CEMES-CNRS is a partner of the IRT AESE project « Aéronautique, Espace et Systèmes Embarqués » awarded with a 842M€ grant in the IRT («Institut de Recherche Technologique ») call.
Carbon nanotips for Atomic Force Microscopy have been fabricated in CEMES and dipped in a liquid interface. This original method allows investigating the elementary mechanisms, at nanometer scale, which determines droplets spreading. It validated...
This ambitious project, termed Atomic Scale and Single Molecule Logic Gate Technologies (ATMOL), will establish a new process for making a complete molecular chip. This means that computing power can be increased significantly but take up only a...
The CEMES-CNRS rewarded for the MIMETIS project « Interferometric Microscopy and In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy » with a 3.5M€ grant in the EQUIPEX (« Equipement d’Excellence ») call. The MIMETIS project aim to vise à produire...
Who has never observed the self-organisation of a bunch of sand on a vibrating plate to form geometric figures ? The computational physicists of the “Crystalline Materials under Stress” group in Cemes have transposed this principle at the...
The "DiNaMo" UHV Factory equipment has been specially designed for the elaboration under UHV of the 5 levels of interconnection necessary to exchange information with a single molecule or nanoobject. The DUF project was supported by the following...
Peapods are peculiar nano-objects discovered in 1998 (see next image) upon a joint CEMES/University-of-Pennsylvania work (Smith et al., Nature 1998). They are made of a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) whose the inner cavity is filled with...
